Acquisitions, Serials, and Collection Development:
Rare and
Out-of-print Catalogs
| TITLE: |
Abracadabra
Booksearch International |
| DESCRIPTION: |
Claims to be "one of the largest book search companies
in the world ... [specializing] in finding Rare, Scarce and Out-Of-Print books for people
and institutions."--Title screen. Search is free. |
| E-MAIL: |
abrabks@abrabks.com |
| KEYWORDS: |
publishers' catalogs, out-of-print catalogs, rare books |
| TITLE: |
Advanced
Book Exchange |
| DESCRIPTION: |
A service for providing free information on buying and
selling out-of-print, used, rare and antiquarian books. You may also save your search
requests onto the ABE database, and they will be retried every 24 hours. You will receive
email notification of all matching books found. |
| E-MAIL: |
abe@abebooks.com |
| KEYWORDS: |
rare books, out-of-print books |
| TITLE: |
Antiqbook: Antiquarian Booksellers Online |
| DESCRIPTION: |
Contains annotated links to rare and out-of-print catalogs,
booksellers and publishers. Resources include books, manuscripts, arts, music,
photographs, etc. |
| E-MAIL: |
David Meesters & Piet
Wesselman, nan@antiqbook.nl |
| KEYWORDS: |
rare books and objects, out-of-print books |
| TITLE: |
Best Big On-line Bookstores |
| DESCRIPTION: |
Offers "fine old books and a traditional book search
capability, a list of best selling book titles to choose from, {and help users to} find
book publishers, book reviews and libraries on-line."--Title screen. The lists of
online US and Canadian bookstores, music stores, foreign books and antiquarian books are
excellent sources to locate books on the Internet. Book reviews are also available. |
| KEYWORDS: |
publishers' catalogs, book reviews, bookstores, rare books |
| TITLE: |
Bibliocity |
| DESCRIPTION: |
Provides rare and collectible books such as first editions,
antiquarian books, scholarly books, children's books, fine printing, fine bindings, Livres
d'Artiste, Incunabula, manuscripts, ephemera, autographs, autograph letters, historical
documents, maps, prints, photographs, and fine art. |
| E-MAIL: |
bibliocity@bibliocity.com |
| KEYWORDS: |
rare books, collectible books |
| TITLE: |
Bibliophile Bookshelf |
| DESCRIPTION: |
Published by Auldbooks, it provides rare, out-of-print,
scarce books in all subject areas. |
| KEYWORDS: |
publishers' catalogs, out-of-print catalogs, rare books |
| TITLE: |
BookFinder.com |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"An online bookstore search and shopping agent, the
savvy bibliophile's best resource. Several of the top bookstores online get searched, and
the results are returned in a single formatted list, usually within seconds."--Title
screen. Quite amazing how fast and well organized for the searching results. Good for
searching new and used books. Rare book vendors are not included in the search list. |
| E-MAIL: |
Anirvan
Chatterjee, anirvan.bf@chatterjee.net |
| KEYWORDS: |
online bookstores, catalogs |
| TITLE: |
Book
Look |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"America's out of print book search service. Hundreds of
current catalogues and useful reference tools."--Supplied by vendor. The service
provides specialists to search out-of-print books for users. The site will prompt for
opening MPlayer. You can click on "Cancel" if you do not want to the site
download anything to your cache. |
| PHONE: |
800-223-0540 |
| KEYWORDS: |
out-of-print catalogs |
| TITLE: |
Books and Book Collecting: SetMaker |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"A free service to try to link up odd volumes with
incomplete sets of reference books, collected works and other multi-volume
editions."--Title screen. |
| KEYWORDS: |
incomplete sets, odd volumes |
| TITLE: |
BookSearch Big Link |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"Started in 1984 by Timothy Donahue. Mr. Donahue has
been in the Rare and Out-of-Print book business since 1968. BookSearch, Inc. is affiliated
with over 1,700 retail bookstores in all fifty states as well as in Canada, the United
Kingdom and Japan."--About. Search is free through the Customer Search Request Form. |
| E-MAIL: |
bksearch@bitstream.net |
| KEYWORDS: |
publishers' catalogs, out-of-print catalogs, rare books |
| TITLE: |
Cyberjaz(tm) |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"Rare and hard-to-find recordings, sheet music,
arrangements and books."--Supplied by vendor. |
| E-MAIL: |
webmaster@cyberjaz.com |
| KEYWORDS: |
rare recordings, music catalogs, music arrangements, bands,
jazz |
| TITLE: |
International League of Antiquarian Booksellers |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers is
an organisation that encompasses national associations of antiquarian booksellers around
the world. It speaks for twenty-one nations and two thousand leading
booksellers."--Title screen. |
| E-MAIL: |
booknet@rmharris.com |
| KEYWORDS: |
rare books, out-of-print books, associations, booksellers |
| TITLE: |
Powell's
Books |
| DESCRIPTION: |
Claims to be "the largest physical bookstore in the
United States, stocking over one million volumes in some 4000 subject areas." It
carries "used, new, rare, out-of-print, antiquarian, and autographed books."
Titles can be browsed by title, author, keyword, ISBN, etc. |
| KEYWORDS: |
out-of-print books, rare books |
| TITLE: |
The Whole Web Book Search |
| DESCRIPTION: |
A service for locating over 20,000,000 books, rare, used, and
antiquarian book dealers, and information and guidelines for book preservation and
appraising book values. |
| KEYWORDS: |
out-of-print books, rare books, book appraisal, preservation |
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